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Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. : in two volumes ...

by: Salmon, William, 1644-1713; Fabre, Pierre-Jean, d. ca. 1650; A. and J. Churchill (Booksellers : London, England); Nicholson, John, d. ca. 1717

Publication date: 1701

Topics: Art, Portrait painting, Medicine, Palmistry, Alchemy

Publisher: London : Printed for A. and J. Churchill ..., and J. Nicholson ...

Collection: gettyalchemy; getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Pages 225-300 lacking in pagination

Plate count includes the frontispiece portrait and an added engraved title-page

Signatures: A a B-P 2A-3R

Statement of responsibility follows the edition statement on title-page

(from title-page) I. The arts of drawing men, women, landskips, &c. II. Of engraving, etching, and limning. III. Of painting, washing, coloring, gilding. IV. Of the original, advancement and perfection of painting, with the various paintings of the ancients. V. Of the arts of beautifying and perfuming. VI. Of the arts of dying and staining. VII. Of alchymie, and the grand elixir of philosophers. VIII. Of the 112 chymical arcana of Peter Faber. IX. Of chiromantical signatures. X. Of staining and painting glass, enamel and Gems. XI. Of vernishing, japaning, and gilding

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